Paul, The "Red Chain link" Icon appears on the split screen view-Legacy "My Legacy Person" side that is generated when the "Open FamilySearch Tree" toolbar button is clicked for an individual highlighted in Legacy's Family View and the "Share Data" tab is selected. I have not done a complete check to determine if old IDs are always available somewhere on some LDS site, but sometimes the old ID is still in the list of "Possible Duplicates" and sometimes it can be found by replacing a preferred FamilySearch ID with the old FamilySearch ID in Legacy's Family View and then repeating FamilySearch. When Legacy (version 219? or earlier) was using the newFamilySearch database to transfer of data to my Legacy file, then it also generated a source reference for that data. The new build of Legacy (270) no longer generates a source reference for FamilySearch data and I have been unable to find a way to do so automatically. I agree with you that the reason for ID changes has its roots in the merging of individuals in the LDS database. Howard ---- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gray" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 5:21 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obsolete FamilySearch IDs
Howard, Could you give a bit more detail as to where you are seeing this 'red chain'? I think it's most likely that the individual has been merged into another on Family Tree by some other user. But, just to see if that's the case, have you tried to go into family Tree directly (on the LDS site) and try to bring up the 'missing' individual? Paul Gray -----Original Message----- From: Howard Cady [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: September-21-13 4:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Obsolete FamilySearch IDs I have noticed that the FamilySearch IDs for some of the individuals in my Legacy file are now obsolete as indicated by a red chain linkage symbol when I do a new FamilySearch that shows that individual. I assume this is caused by someone changing the current LDS FamilySearch database from the IDs used by the obsolete newFamilySearch. Is there a global search technique that will produce a list of all such obsolete individual FamilySearch IDs in my Legacy file? If not, is it a worthwhile suggestion for a future feature for Legacy and its FamilySearch features? I expect this to be a continuing item as the LDS FamilySearch data base and its preferred IDs continue to be updated/changed in the future. Howard Cady Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
